Vishwa Mohan

Vishwa Mohan

Vishwa Mohan is Environment Editor with The Times of India. He covers Parliament and various central ministries like agriculture, water resources, environment and climate change, earth sciences and science & technology. Before switching over to explore green and sustainable development issues, he had covered Union home ministry and central investigating agencies, including CBI and NIA, for almost a decade and extensively written on matters relating to crime investigation, internal security, center-state relations and administrative reforms.

Jan 21, 2019Seeking to meet India’s voluntary commitment to eliminate single-use plastic in the country by 2022, the Centre on Monday wrote to all states asking them to explore legal options to meet the target and shared with them newly framed guidelines which may be handy for them to introduce or step up prohibitive action

Jan 17, 2019IMD said annual mean surface air temperature (averaged over the country) during the year was 0.41 degree Celsius above (1981-2010) average. “All the six warmest years on record in India were in the last 10 years. It clearly shows that ‘global warming’ is happening and we need to prepare ourselves to face its consequences,” said secretary of the ministry of earth sciences M Rajeevan.

Jan 14, 2019Prediction tools for this purpose are being developed by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and India Meteorological Department (IMD), New Delhi in the backdrop of the last year’s pre-monsoon incidents of thunderstorms and very high wind speed-led dust storms that claimed about 200 lives in different north Indian states